Journal tagged by At work with

This week we meet artist Anja Dietmann, who is one of the founders of Pfeil magazine. Conceived as an exhibition in the form of a magazine, Pfeil features written and visual submissions on a theme—the latest is ‘Friends’. Anja explains more as she shares her week and working life.

Tim Pollard has worked for many of the UK’s biggest car magazines, and is now Group Digital Editorial Director at Bauer Media, the UK’s largest publisher. He is also the 2022 Chair of the British Society of Magazine Editors (BSME), and here he explains what the Society stands for and what the role of Chair role entails.

John L Walters will be a familiar name to anyone that follows graphic design, as editor, and co-owner with Simon Esterson, of Eye magazine. The two also work together on Pulp magazine, Fedrigoni’s showcase for deisgn work produced using their papers. John shares his coming week as issue 24 of Pulp is published.

We meet Joe Richards, who has just published the second issue of his large-format photography magazine M-A (A Space Between). The gorgeous, tactile publication presents uninterrupted, full-bleed visual stories from emergent and established photographers. He tells us about the magazine and his working week.

Continuing our recent focus on music magazines, we meet Ben Perkins, the man behind Alternative Strategies. Ben has making zines for about ten years, starting with cassette zines, listing zines and now his punk music zine. He tells us about the zine and the scene it covers as issue two goes on sale.

Arjun Chadha launched Get Familiar in 2020, because, ‘As a fan of both hip-hop and thought-provoking journalism, I couldn’t to find an outlet that managed to blend both of those two worlds together.’ Four issues later he’s established a voice that bridges hip-hop fans and the culturally curious.